Curt Langenbeck

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Curt Langenbeck (born June 20, 1906 in Elberfeld , † August 6, 1953 in Munich ) was a German writer and dramaturge .

Life

The son of a factory owner trained as a dyeing technician in Basel , Elberfeld, New York , Lyon and Charlieu since 1925 . From 1929 to 1931 he practiced this profession in Opladen . From 1931 to 1933 he studied literature and theater studies in Cologne and Freiburg im Breisgau . Martin Heidegger and Wolfgang Schadewaldt were among his teachers . He finally went to Vienna as a doctoral student . In 1930 he married Susanne Langenbeck, b. Fast .

Since 1933 he was in contact with the Langen Müller Verlag . Langenbeck recorded initial successes with historical dramas. From 1935 to 1938 he worked as chief dramaturge in Kassel and from 1938 in the same position at the Bavarian State Theater in Munich.

With his drama The High Traitor he achieved his greatest success in 1939. The piece is assigned to the Nazi tendency literature. On November 29, 1939, he gave a lecture in the Künstlerhaus entitled The Rebirth of Drama from the Spirit of Time . He designed a heroic dramaturgy, which should serve the renewal of consciousness in the National Socialist sense and the willingness to make sacrifices. He criticized Shakespeare's "individualism" and recommended Greek tragedy as a model for the new heroic, National Socialist drama.

With these theses, Langenbeck encountered contradictions from other authors who conformed to the regime. The theater journalist Josef Magnus Wehner , in particular, had a long-running public debate with him, most of which was featured in the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten . Among other things, the performances of Antigone favored by Langenbeck in 1940, the second year of the war, met with criticism as being out of date. Nevertheless, he received the Rhenish Literature Prize in the same year .

His next tragic drama The Sword premiered on November 23, 1940 in the Prinzregententheater , but it had to be withdrawn after an intervention by Alfred Rosenberg . After arguments with the Reich dramaturgy, he signed up for the Navy in 1941.

In 1948 the premiere of a new play entitled Der Phantast took place at the Stuttgart State Theater

Works

  • Homecoming. Tragedy , Munich, K. Desch, 1930
  • Alexander. Tragic play , A. Lange / G.Müller, 1934
  • Hobby or Bianka and the Jeweler , A. Lange / G.Müller, 1934
  • Heinrich VI., German tragedy , A. Langen / G. Müller, 1936
  • Faithful John. A seal for the stage , A.Langen / G.Müller, 1937
  • Poor knight , A. Lange / G. Müller, 1938
  • The traitor. Tragic drama , A. Langen / G. Müller, 1938
  • The sword , A. Langen / G. Müller, 1940
  • Tragedy and the present , A. Langen / G. Müller, 1940
  • The rebirth of the drama from the spirit of the time , A. Lange / G.Müller, 1940
  • Mrs. Eleonore. Novelle , A. Lange / G.Müller (Die kleine Bücherei), Munich, 1941
  • Treue , A. Langen / G. Müller, 1944
  • The landing . radio play
  • The dreamer . play

Single receipts

  1. ^ Manfred Lotsch: The playwright Curt Langenbeck (1906-1953). His life and development until 1932. Hamburg 1958.
  2. ↑ From a memo to the NSDAP by the President of the Reichsschriftstumskammer June 20, 1940 / Federal Archives
  3. ↑ from the article To save the occident , in Der Spiegel , issue 50/1948

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SURNAME Langenbeck, Curt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German playwright and dramaturge
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH August 6, 1953
Place of death Munich